Any news?
by Thomas
I know I’m a bad blogger, 3 weeks without posting, it’s outrageous. I’m sorry, it won’t happen again.
Where to start?
Oh, yes. The first big news for me is that I won’t stay as long as scheduled in Armenia. I was supposed to spend initially 3 years for KASA Foundation, but I’ll leave in the end of june. Why? because 3 years is pretty long in such an environment. There is also some professional reasons, but this is not the question on that blog.
I’ve really been pleased by the way my boss reacted when I announced them my choice. Thanks again for your support.
Anyway, until then, I’ll have to work twice more. But, the work seems to be really interesting. (I’ll speak a bit more in my future posts).
That makes me spending one third of my working time in Gyumri. I’ll try to stay a bit more, so I can discover life from inside.
I’ll also have a bit time to think a bit more to my future projects (either to stay in Armenia , so I’ll be able to keep a consultant look on the projects I’ve been working on, or go in another country, stay in the cooperation world, on go back to business). Time will tell
And it’s during my meeting with Julie, french volunteer in Vanadzor pour SPFA via Armenian Volunteer Corp, who just came back to France this week that I realized my chance to live such an experience : one year and a half long experience outside france, in a very different environment, and moreover, a job pretty much interesting. Anyway, Julie, good luck to the hard and tough come back to the parisian life :)
Coldness is coming step by step, and if Yerevan is still a bit sunny, the country is getting into the rigorous caucasian winter. I really aprehend to face -15°C temperatures.
I went to Adesa concert last week. It’s a band from Ghana pretty interesting, mixing traditional ghanean music and more conventionnal reggae, and acrobatic and juggling performances. Musically speaking, it was really well done.And it was interesting to see how armenian people were reacting to a music they were not used to listen to. Indeed, african music is not so played here in Caucasus. More than half of the club finished the concert dancing around tables. A really nice evening so.
This is almost over for tonight. I hope I’ll be starting to blog more frequently. And finishing to integrate the whole website. Wait and see …
C’est quand même bien que tu reprennes le blog. Je crois que tu viens une expérience riche . Je crois que Gumri et sa région valent bien un effort. Bon courage
Salut,
Merci pour ton soutien ! dur dur le retour à Paris, je plane.
En parlant de cadence, j’ai vu une expo à la Villette sur l’Arménie. Ils montraient un film de Atom Egoyan, Calendar (pas girl lol). Tout le monde a trouvé ça très très lent, mais c’était simplement la réalité arménienne. Bon film d’ailleurs : un canadien se fait piquer sa femme par un arménien lors d’un reportage qu’ils font dans le pays. Normal, charme arménien légendaire.
J’ai raté les entretiens de cette semaine, je prendrai le temps de me ré-adapter et de REFLECHIR. En même temps, une fille avait lu dans mon mart de café que j’aurai 2 semaines difficiles au retour.
T’as raison d’écourter le voyage. C’est super chaud le retour, même après 8 mois; alors 3 ans c’est pas la peine ! Pense au mart de café, ca peut aider lol
attend, je viens d’ecrire un comment et ca marche pas.
il etait cool pourtant.
je te disais de faire confiance au mart de café pour tes choix, ca peut aider. moi ca marche, les mauvais cotés, j’attends les bons …